中文摘要:当今,我们能在网络上看到越来越多的美国黑人公众人物,他们可能是篮球运动员,著名歌手或者演员,甚至是总统,因此,我们也就有着更多机会他们说着的美国黑人英语。因为非常想知道这种语言的特点,所以许多人都投入到研究美国黑人英语这项工作中去。而这篇论文通过三个方面来进行研究,它们分别是:语音学,语法和词形学。通过研究先前的学者所撰写的文献,这篇论文对这三个方面进行深入探究。而通过分析,我确实得出了一些结论,比如/r/或者/l/音的省略,动词时态,美国黑人创造的俚语或词语等等。借助这篇文章,读者能对这种独特的语言有更深刻的认识,从而促进我们与美国黑人友人的交流并减少我们之间的文化隔阂。
关键词:美国黑人英语 语言学 语音学 句法 词形学
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABSTRACT
中文摘要
Chapter One Introduction-1
1.1 Present situation of AfricanAmerican vernacular English-1
1.2 Origin of AfricanAmerican vernacular English-2
Chapter Two Phonology of African American Vernacular English-3
2.1 Definition of phonology-3
2.2 Phonological features of AfricanAmerican vernacular English-3
2.2.1 Deletion of /r/-3
2.2.2 Deletion of /l/-4
2.2.3 Simplification of consonants-4
Chapter Three Grammar of African American Vernacular English-6
3.1 Definition of grammar-6
3.2 Grammatical features of AfricanAmerican vernacular English-6
3.2.1 Copula “be”-6
3.2.2 Tense of verbs-7
3.2.3 Negation-8
Chapter Four Morphology of African American Vernacular English-10
4.1 Definition of morphology-10
4.2 Unique vocabularies used by AfricanAmericans-10
4.2.1 Slang created by AfricanAmericans-10
4.2.2 Vocabularies created by AfricanAmericans-11
4.2.3 Spelling of vocabularies in AfricanAmericans’ daily talk-12
Chapter Five Summary-14
5.1 Summary of the features of AfricanAmerican vernacular English-14
5.2 Meaning and enlightenment of this research-14
REFERENCES-15
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS-16